Take it from day to day
Stan Rogers
Album: From Coffee House to Concert Hall (2000)
Verse 1:
G C D G
Well, it's not the hours of watch-on-watch,
G C D Em
And it's not the work that I mind so much,
G C
Or the long cold miles from my lover's touch,
G Am D
'Though for sure she's far away.
G C D G
No stranger, I, to the touch of steel,
G C D Em
Or the honest fear any man can feel,
G C
But I long for dust under my heels
G Am
And a pocket full of pay
C G D G
So I'll take it from day to day.
Verse 2:
G C D G
The pack-ice 'round us cracks and groans;
G C D Em
The old St. Roch, she creaks and moans.
G C
The icy fog is in my bones,
G Am D
And the ache won't go away.
G C D G
Outside I bet it's warm and fair.
G C D Em
I could have her fingers in my hair,
G C
But it's long, cold miles to her out there
G Am
So I guess I'll have to stay
C G D G
And just take it from day to day!
Chorus:
D G C
We're as far North now as I want to come,
C G
But Larsen's got us under his thumb,
D G C
And I signed up for the whole damned run,
Am D
I can't get off half way.
G C D G
But when I get back unto the shore,
G C D Em
I'm going South where it stays warm,
G C
And there'll be someone on my arm
G Am
To help me spend my pay,
C G D G
So I'll take it from day to day.
(fiddle solo over same chords as verse)
(repeat chorus)
(fiddle solo over first half of verse)
G C D G
No stranger, I, to the touch of steel
G C D Em
And the honest fear any man can feel,
G C
But I long for dust under my heels
G Am
And a pocket full of pay,
C G D G
So I'll take it from day to day.
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